The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
To the adoption of Greek words there seems to be hardly any limit but the caprice of the translator.
We cannot always submit to a perpetual shifting of burdens, as if the people of this country were so many dromedaries, to have their hourly capabilities of relief determined by the caprice of their drivers.
The change was too disadvantageous for it possibly to be the consequence of his own caprice or inclination.
Instead of rendering it the more annoying, by caprice and inequality of temper, why not endeavor to surmount it?
Perhaps an excuse might be found for the caprice of Louis's disposition in the deplorable state of his health.
All this, instead of being as you now are, dependent on the mere caprice of Puffy!
A Cuban mother will yield to any capriceof her children, even although she may realize that in so doing she endangers their future.
Strange as it may seem, nature in her mysterious caprice has twice repeated the form of a shoe at separate points in the outline of the south coast of Cuba.
The young man only smiled at what he deemed a mere caprice of suspicion, and the subject dropped between them.
There are almost always persons in society who wish to take the lead, and give the ton; it is a caprice or fault which should be avoided.
And both he and his wife are soon aware that in doing so, he is only humouring the caprice of a dying man.
He notes also the constant recurrence of the same old themes, and the caprice of taste which strives as constantly to convert them into something new.
Berlin, who, it seems, read English, and have taken a caprice for mine.
The moment any irregular wish, any casual caprice of the benevolent landlord meets with opposition, the doors are barred against the congregation.
Every thing is settled for Holland, and nothing but a cough, or a caprice of my fellow-traveller's, can stop us.
F] But it was the fate of our language to be shaken by violent revolutions, and abandoned to accident or the caprice of unskillful heads.
Custom has made some inroads upon the rules of uniformity, and caprice is ever busy in multiplying anomalies.
The Bards, at various periods, possessed uncommon privileges, but these were from time to time diminished or increased, according to the caprice of those under whose government they lived.
They have been recognized and protected as appendages to men, without independent rights or political existence, unknown to the law except as victims of its caprice and tyranny.
He was also liable to attacks of caprice and self-punishment.
It is a mere chance that Hamlet's revenge is executed at all, and a similar caprice of chance causes his overthrow.
But the scandal was too grave to admit of a private inquiry, in which the honour of the army might seem to be sacrificed to the caprice of the friendly judgment of Metellus.
What was needed was a methodical system, which should abolish at once the fiction of "freedom" and the reality of the exactions meted out at the caprice of the governor of the moment.
These clinging local attachments are comparatively little known to people confined within the limits of cities, and living in the hired houses, which any caprice or revolution of fortune may make them change.
The ordinary means at the disposal of the priest for ascertaining the divine will or caprice were twofold,--directly through oracles or indirectly by means of omens derived from an examination of the sacrifices offered.
As for the other gods, it is to some extent a matter of capricewhich ones happen to be invoked, though just as frequently we see the motive for selecting certain ones of the pantheon.
In this stage, religion has no higher character than that of caprice and of love of the mysterious and marvelous, mixed with fear and a slavish adoration of the divine.
When man reaches a higher development, caprice and chance disappear from religion.
